An Upstate mother is facing several charges after deputies said she helped her two daughters beat up another teen on school property.

Lottie Young is charged with assault by mob, using a person under the age of 18 to commit a crime, assault and battery, disturbing school and two counts of delinquency of a minor.

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According to an incident report, video shows Young pull into the Seneca High School parking lot and get out of her car with one of her daughters. It then shows the daughter running over and joining her other sister in a fight, the report said.

The report said the video shows a man trying to help the victim in the fight when he is grabbed by Young and pushed against a car.

News 4 talked to Young on Tuesday.

"By the time I have gotten over there they were already fighting and I got out of the car," Young said.

The video showed Young approach the fight and grab the victim by her arms in what appeared to be an effort to keep the victim from being able to fight back and allowing her daughters to attack the victim at will, the report said.

The report said that officials had two copies of video that showed the incident taking place.

Witness also said they saw Young kicking the victim while she was on the ground.

According to the report, several coaches tried to break up the fight and both daughters resisted. It said one coach was able to get one of the girls off the victim when the other sister jumped back in and kicked and stomped the victim while she was on the ground.

Deputies said after the fight, Young put her daughters in her car and would not let them talk to officials. The report said Young said, "You all wouldn’t handle it at school, so we handled it ourselves."

Young said for the past month her 15-year-old daughter has been bullied by the victim.

Young said she had been trying to get help from the school about bullying for a month.

"(My daughter has) been crying at school. I had to go get her out of school because people kept picking on her and I told the officer about it," Young said.

Seneca police officer Eric Brown said, "We have not had any reports of these individuals having any dealings with each other."

When officials talked to Young at her home later that day, she told them when she got to the school and got out of the car the girls were already fighting and she helped a staff member break up the fight.

The victim provided deputies with medical documents showing a concussion, contusions, and a referral from a CT scan for possible facial fractures. Officials said they also saw a large clump of hair pulled from the top of her scalp, and bruising and swelling around the left eye and cheek.

Young’s daughters, who are juveniles, are also charged with assault and battery by mob and disturbing school.